We just came back. . .

from a week on Cape Cod.  Every so often we need to go back to the ocean.  The sea is my earthly vision of God.  It is so vast as to appear unending.  I look at it and may be moved by its life and beauty, or frightened by its starkness and depth.  Its freshness and scent renew me.  As I watch the gentle waves break across the sand, I feel that I have returned to where life began.

". . .the miracle of creation is the same miracle--whether it took six days or many centuries."--from Rodgers and Hammerstein's THE KING AND I